Al-Rashid Explained

Al-Rashid, ar-Rashid ("the Righteous"), Al-Rasheed or Al Rasheed may refer to:

• Ar-Rashīd, one of the names of God in Islam, meaning "Guide to the Right Path"

People

• Abdullah bin Ali Al Rashid, founder of the Emirate of Jabal Shammar
• Abdulaziz bin Mutaib Al Rashid, Emir of Jabal Shammar from 1897 to 1906
• Abdulaziz bin Saud Al Rashid, son of Fahda bint Asi bin Shuraim Al Shammari and Rashidi Emir Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Rashid
• Ali Al-Rashid, Kuwaiti politician
• Hannah Al Rashid, Indonesian actress
• Harun al-Rashid, the fifth Abbasid Caliph, 786–809.
• Abu'l-Futuh al-Hasan ibn Ja'far, briefly anti-Caliph in 1012, claimed the regnal name al-Rashid
• Al-Rashid Billah, the Caliph of Baghdad, from 1135 to 1136.
• Mohamed Al-Rashed, Sudanese footballer
• Mohammed Al-Rashid, Saudi Arabian footballer
• Al-Rashid of Morocco (Moulay Al-Rashid ibn Sharif) Sultan of Morocco from 1666 to 1672
• Nasser Ibrahim Al-Rashid, Saudi businessman and billionaire.

Located in Baghdad, Iraq

• Al-Rashid, Baghdad, an administrative district
• Al-Rashid Street
• Al-Rasheed Airport
• Al Rasheed Hotel
• Al Rasheed TV, a satellite TV channel based in Baghdad
• Al-Rasheed SC, a defunct Iraqi football club based in Baghdad
• Al Rasheed University College, a private university

Other uses

• Emirate of Al-Rashīd, a pre-Saudi Arabian state in the Nejd region of Arabia, existing from the mid-nineteenth century to 1921
• Rashidi dynasty, a historic dynasty of the Arabian Peninsula
• Al Rashid Trust, charity front of Taliban and Al-Qaeda
• Al-Rashid humanitarian aid incident, a massacre in which 112 Palestinians were killed in Gaza

See also

• Rashid (disambiguation)